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Key facts
- Full name
- Robert Paisley
- Date of birth
- ( 1919-01-23 ) 23 January 1919
- Place of birth
- Hetton-le-Hole , England
- Date of death
- 14 February 1996 (1996-02-14) (aged 77)
- Place of death
- Liverpool , England
- Position
- Left-half
- Years
- Team
- 1937 1939
- Bishop Auckland
- 1939 1954
- Liverpool
- 1959 1973
- Liverpool (assistant manager)
- 1974 1983
- Liverpool
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hetton-le-Hole
- Place of death
- Liverpool
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Bishop Auckland F.C.
- Position played
- defender
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- British Army
- Official website
- bobpaisley.com
- Image
- Bob Paisley banner.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1919-01-23
- date of death
- 1996-02-14
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- Bob Paisley
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- coach of sports team
- Liverpool F.C.
- name in native language
- Bob Paisley
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Paisley OBE (23 January 1919 – 14 February 1996) was an English professional football manager and player who played as a wing-half. He spent almost 50 years with Liverpool and is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. Reluctantly taking the job in 1974, he built on the foundations laid by his predecessor Bill Shankly and went on to become the most successful English manager in history. Paisley is the first of five managers to have won the European Cup three times. He is also one of five managers to have won the English top-flight championship as both a player and manager at the same club.
Paisley came from a small County Durham mining community and, in his youth, played for Bishop Auckland, before he signed for Liverpool in 1939. During the Second World War he served in the British Army, and could not make his Liverpool debut until 1946. In the 1946–47 season, he was a member of the Liverpool team that won the First Division title for the first time in 24 years. He was made club captain in 1951, and remained with Liverpool until he retired from playing in 1954.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bob Paisley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.